Arriva 3768 (LT63 UNM) in Welwyn Garden City - 8 Sep 2023 (P1160465)

Friday 8 September 2023 (1300) – Arriva 3768 (LT63 UNM), a Wright Eclipse Urban bodied Volvo B7RLE new in September 201, parked in front of the John Lewis Department Store in Welwyn Garden City.

The store was originally founded as Welwyn Stores Limited, the retail subsidiary of the Garden City Company, which opened in June 1939 just before the start of World War 2. As well as the retail business the property also featured 62 apartments and a Masonic Suite.

The bus had arrived at the nearby bus station at 1254 as the late running 1110 service 302 from Hemel Hempstead which should have arrived at 1235 returning as the 1240 service - which it didn’t.

After unloading at the bus station it moved and parked on The Campus as seen here. The tracker on the Bus Times website seemed to show that it ran out of service via the A414 to Adeyfield (Laverstock Green Road) timed there at 1355 (five minutes later that the service timetable) then terminating at Hemel Hempstead bus station. It then covered the 1430 service 302 from Hemel Hempstead to Welwyn Garden City (which appears to be what the duty regularly does).